Showing posts with label Fan Cover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fan Cover. Show all posts

Monday, April 13, 2020

Quarantine & Repairs: Week ???

As the stay at home order continues, the days are starting to flow together a bit.  Unfortunately spring hasn't completely taken hold in Virginia and West Virginia, with cold temperatures and SNOW!

I miss Florida!

We did work on the RV a bit during one nice day and got our fan cover installed.

View from the inside

Installing the new cover

Recaulking another fan cover

Our new tow hitch also arrived in the mail - the old one was heavily used and 'free' when we purchased the RV, but doesn't move when it should and moves when it shouldn't, a bit of a safety hazard, so we opted to replace it while we're parked.

Due to the cold temperatures and multiple sub-freezing nights we plugged our heat tape back in and turned on the heater in the RV to stop the pipes from freezing. 

Aside from the one day of work, most days have been either too cold, too wet, or too windy (or a combination thereof) to get anything done on the RV, so we've been hanging out inside and taking walks around the neighborhood when we can.  Even though it's been cold, the trees think spring has sprung!

Apple trees on the farm
After the new recommendation from the CDC regarding masks, my mother and I made a few out of old pillows using a hybrid of patterns available online.  Fortunately my mother is a much better seamstress than I am and was able to help me through!

Completed masks for Aaron and me
For anyone who's reading that we used to hang out with WAYYY back in the day, we've been playing a bit of Starcraft II in our free time!  We hadn't played any computer games to speak of in 5 or 6 years, it's been fun to relive our 'youth' a bit.

Sadly that's all I have to report for now!  We're hoping the weather will turn soon so we can get some more productive work done on the RV...since the stay at home order looks like it'll be around for a while, we've decided there's not a particular reason to go out in the cold at the moment!

Friday, April 3, 2020

Quarantine & Repairs: Week One

Unfortunately the family farm received a lot of rain in the days leading up to our arrival in the RV.  We had to leave the RV parked un-level at the top of the driveway while waiting for the field to dry out so we could reposition it at the one flat place on the farm.

We had a narrow window on Saturday where it had been dry for a few days right before rain was due again, so we raced to move the RV.  Unfortunately the field was not quite so firm as it appeared when we did the test drive over it in the cars, and the RV got stuck.  

Take a good look at that front tire...
Thanks to some quick thinking and quick work by Aaron and my dad, we were able to jack the RV up, put boards underneath the tires, and get moving again...only to get stuck in another 10 feet.  So we repeated the process.

Positioning the boards

Yay! Traction!

Over the board and on to the next place to get stuck
We left some nasty ruts in the field 😞
Finally we got the RV in place!  We did a lot of jacking up and down and Aaron drove very carefully to get the RV up on the different-height blocks that keep it level and stop it from sinking into the earth.

So many blocks!  Plus plywood for traction to drive up
on the blocks.

All set!
The next day the wind managed to rip one of the fan/vent covers off of the RV.  (It's REALLY windy at the farm.)  This particular cover's restraining arm broke while we were on the road, so Aaron already had a replacement on order (though it hadn't arrived yet), but we still had to race over between rain showers and tape plastic over the gaping hole in the roof.  It seems that the crazy wind managed to get under the cover and blow the whole thing off without the restraining arm.  

Broken fan cover